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Democritus Quote - Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Greedy Human Nature Listen Talk Want
In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Bone Fish One Liner Partnership Share Team Work
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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Desire Equivalent Inspirational Poverty Wealth
Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Cease Fools Men
The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Deed One Liner Shadow Words
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Honesty Man Slave Wealth
My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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Enemy Man Philosophy Wrong
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Animal Man Need Philosophy
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Moderation Pain Pleasure Throw Wind
Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Fortune Luxury Man Meal Virtue
The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Home Man One Liner Universe Wise
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Body Disease Freedom Healing Medicine Passion Positive Soul Wisdom
Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Bottom Bury Nature Sea Snorkeling
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Console Injustice Suffering Unhappy
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Experience Men Motivational Nature Practice Work Hard
Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Body Disease Home Life
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Atom Empty Existence Opinion Philosophy Space
To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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She Speak Woman
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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Democracy Freedom Poverty Prefer Prosperity Slave
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Deed Deep Goodness Remember Sin
Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Expectation Virtue Wrong
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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Confidence Development Discourage Faith Laugh Negative Oneself People Person Root
All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Necessity One Liner Science Virtue
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Attack Course Sex
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Control Desire Fight Man Reason
Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Happiness Money Strength
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Children Desire Man Moderation

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