Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
DEMOCRITUSHope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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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 wise man’s home is the universe.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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