The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
DEMOCRITUSModeration multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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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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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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