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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
DemocritusDemocritus It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
DemocritusDemocritus The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
DemocritusDemocritus Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
DemocritusDemocritus The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
DemocritusDemocritus The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
DemocritusDemocritus Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
DemocritusDemocritus Envy creates the beginning of strife.
DemocritusDemocritus More men have become great through practice than by nature.
DemocritusDemocritus Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
DemocritusDemocritus The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
DemocritusDemocritus Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
DemocritusDemocritus Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
DemocritusDemocritus If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
DemocritusDemocritus Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
DemocritusDemocritus To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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