Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
DEMOCRITUSRaising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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