Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
DEMOCRITUSMore men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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