Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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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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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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 pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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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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