Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
DEMOCRITUSTis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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