Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
DEMOCRITUSIf your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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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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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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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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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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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