Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
DEMOCRITUSDisease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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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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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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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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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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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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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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You 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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