To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
DEMOCRITUSNothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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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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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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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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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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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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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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 pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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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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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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 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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