Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
DEMOCRITUSMen will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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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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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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More men have become great through practice than by 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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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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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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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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