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Democritus Quote - Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Gold Powerful Reason
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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Men Prudent Trust Worth
Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Expectation Virtue Wrong
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Body Disease Freedom Healing Medicine Passion Positive Soul Wisdom
Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Happiness Money Strength
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Creation Education Man Nature Similar Transformation
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Country Greatness Home Man Soul Wise World
Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Human Nature Knowledge Men Strive Thinking
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Intelligence Learning Men
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Children Desire Man Moderation
Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Beginning Creation Envy One Liner
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Attack Course Sex
The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Bitter Excess Life Relationship Sweet
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Experience Men Motivational Nature Practice Work Hard
My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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Enemy Man Philosophy Wrong
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Control Desire Fight Man Reason

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