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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus
Freeman (1948), p. 152
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Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Democritus
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Born:
460 BC
Died:
370 BC
(aged 90)
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