Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
DEMOCRITUSLife unexamined, is not worth living.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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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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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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