It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
DEMOCRITUSThe animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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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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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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