Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
DEMOCRITUSOne should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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