Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
DEMOCRITUSLife unexamined, is not worth living.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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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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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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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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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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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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