Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
DEMOCRITUSReason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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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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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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