Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
DEMOCRITUSEnvy creates the beginning of strife.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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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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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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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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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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