Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Democritus Quote
“Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.”
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