Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
DEMOCRITUSThe word is the shadow of the deed.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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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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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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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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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