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Democritus Quote - Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

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Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
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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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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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