Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
DEMOCRITUSIt is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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