Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
DEMOCRITUSMany much-learned men have no intelligence.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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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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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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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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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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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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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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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 sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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