The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
DEMOCRITUSEnvy creates the beginning of strife.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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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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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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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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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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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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