The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
DEMOCRITUSLife unexamined, is not worth living.
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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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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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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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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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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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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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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