The wise man’s home is the universe.
DEMOCRITUSThe wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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