Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
DEMOCRITUSNo power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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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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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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