Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
DEMOCRITUSBy desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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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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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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