My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
DEMOCRITUSYou 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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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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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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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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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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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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