Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
DEMOCRITUSIf thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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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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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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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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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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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