The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
DEMOCRITUSThe sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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