Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
DEMOCRITUSOur sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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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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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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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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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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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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