It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
DEMOCRITUSThe wise man’s home is the universe.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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