My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
DEMOCRITUSGood breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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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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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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