Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
DEMOCRITUSLife unexamined, is not worth living.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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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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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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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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