Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
DEMOCRITUSMen will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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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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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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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.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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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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