Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
DEMOCRITUSFortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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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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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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