Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
DEMOCRITUSEverywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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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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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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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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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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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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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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