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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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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
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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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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Anger Control Fight Hard Inspirational Man Prudent
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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Blame Character Echo Fate Man Mistake Nature Passion Weakness
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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Alone Deed Desire False Man True
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Experience Men Motivational Nature Practice Work Hard
Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Expectation Virtue Wrong
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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Battle Children Raise Reach Success Uncertain Worry
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
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Honesty Man Slave Wealth
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
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Body Disease Home Life
All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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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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She Speak Woman
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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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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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Extension Knowledge Power Treasure
Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Bottom Bury Nature Sea Snorkeling

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