The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
DEMOCRITUSIt is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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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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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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 word is the shadow of the deed.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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