By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
DEMOCRITUSNo power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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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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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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