Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
DEMOCRITUSPoverty 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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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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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 brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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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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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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