Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
DEMOCRITUSSome 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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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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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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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