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Democritus Quote - Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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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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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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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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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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