Men should strive to think much and know little.
DEMOCRITUSThrow moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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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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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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