The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
DEMOCRITUSSexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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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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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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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