The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
DEMOCRITUSGood means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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