It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
DEMOCRITUSThe wise man’s home is the universe.
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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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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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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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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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