Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
DEMOCRITUSEnvy creates the beginning of strife.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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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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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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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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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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