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Democritus Quote - The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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 brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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