It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
DEMOCRITUSImmoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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