Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
DEMOCRITUSThe man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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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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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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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