Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
DEMOCRITUSMy enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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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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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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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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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
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