The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
DEMOCRITUSOur sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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 wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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More men have become great through practice than by 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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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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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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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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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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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