Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
DEMOCRITUSIn a shared fish, there are no bones.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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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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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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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong 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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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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 greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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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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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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