The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
DEMOCRITUSMen should strive to think much and know little.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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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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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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