Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
DEMOCRITUSMy enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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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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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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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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Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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