In a shared fish, there are no bones.
DEMOCRITUSGood breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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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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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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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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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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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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