Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
DEMOCRITUSThe word is the shadow of the deed.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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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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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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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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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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