Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
DEMOCRITUSEverywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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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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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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