It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
DEMOCRITUSThe person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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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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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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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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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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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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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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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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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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