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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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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

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Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

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Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse…

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

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The wise man’s home is the universe.

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“Accept nothing pleasant unless it is beneficial.”

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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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Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

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