Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
DEMOCRITUSDisease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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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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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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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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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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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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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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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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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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