Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
DEMOCRITUSIt is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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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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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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 man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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