Life unexamined, is not worth living.
DEMOCRITUSOne should practice much sense, not much learning.
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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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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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