Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
DEMOCRITUSIn a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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