"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."
"The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife."
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Source: Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker, translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 166), 1948.
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