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Democritus Quote - Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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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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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Doer Fake Man Unfortunate Wrong
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Happiness Money Strength
Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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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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Creation Education Man Nature Similar Transformation
The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Explanation Inspirational Life Live One Liner Worth
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Console Injustice Suffering Unhappy
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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Battle Children Raise Reach Success Uncertain Worry
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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Men Prudent Trust Worth
Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Bottom Bury Nature Sea Snorkeling
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Greedy Human Nature Listen Talk Want
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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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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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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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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Alone Deed Desire False Man True
Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Expectation Virtue Wrong
The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Home Man One Liner Universe Wise
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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Intelligence Learning Men
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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