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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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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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 word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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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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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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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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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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