The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
DEMOCRITUSThe pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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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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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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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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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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