It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
DEMOCRITUSThe pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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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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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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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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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 man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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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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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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