It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
DEMOCRITUSMany much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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