If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
DEMOCRITUSMen should strive to think much and know little.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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