It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
DEMOCRITUSRaising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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