Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
DEMOCRITUSHappiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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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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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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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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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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