Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
DEMOCRITUSMedicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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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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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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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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