Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
DEMOCRITUSEnvy creates the beginning of strife.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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