Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
DEMOCRITUSThe wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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