I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
DEMOCRITUSRaising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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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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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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