Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
DEMOCRITUSDisease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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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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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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 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.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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