The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
DEMOCRITUSThe 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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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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