No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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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 greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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