If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
DEMOCRITUSThe 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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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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All things happen by virtue of 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 pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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