I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
DEMOCRITUSEnvy creates the beginning of strife.
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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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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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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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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