Envy creates the beginning of strife.
DEMOCRITUSIf thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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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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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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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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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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