Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
DEMOCRITUSOne should practice much sense, not much learning.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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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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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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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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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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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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