Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
DEMOCRITUSMen should strive to think much and know little.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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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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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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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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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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