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Democritus Quote - Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Expectation Virtue Wrong
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Breed Cattle Character Health Physical
It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Deep Destroy Error Judgment
Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Body Disease Home Life
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Greedy Human Nature Listen Talk Want
In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Bone Fish One Liner Partnership Share Team Work
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Creation Education Man Nature Similar Transformation
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Age Beauty Pride Strength Youth
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Intelligence Learning Men
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Honesty Man Slave Wealth
Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Desire Goodness Intention Wisdom Wrong
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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Democracy Freedom Poverty Prefer Prosperity Slave
The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Deed One Liner Shadow Words
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Earth Father Man Wise
Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Anger Control Fight Hard Inspirational Man Prudent
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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Alone Deed Desire False Man True

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