Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Everywhere 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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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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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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