Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
DEMOCRITUSMedicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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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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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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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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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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