The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
DEMOCRITUSTo speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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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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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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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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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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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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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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