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There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom. (Democritus)
He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong. View quote
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If any one hearken with understanding to these sayings of mine many a deed worthy of a good man shall he perform and many a foolish deed be spared. View quote
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No one deserves to live who has not at least one good-man-and-true for a friend. View quote
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A sensible man takes pleasure in what he has instead of pining for what he has not. View quote
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The friendship of one wise man is better than the friendship of a host of fools. View quote
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The right-minded man, ever inclined to righteous and lawful deeds, is joyous day and night, and strong, and free from care. But if a man take no heed of the right, and leave undone the things he ought to do, then will the recollection of no one of all his transgressions bring him any joy, but only anxiety and self-reproaching. View quote
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Tis a grievous thing to be subject to an inferior. View quote
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Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins. View quote
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The pleasures that give most joy are the ones that most rarely come. View quote
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An evil and foolish and intemperate and irreligious life should not be called a bad life, but rather, dying long drawn out. (Democritus)
Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men. View quote
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Men in their prayers beg the gods for health, not knowing that this is a thing they have in their own power. Through their incontinence undermining it, they themselves become, because of their passions, the betrayers of their own health. View quote
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For a man petticoat government is the limit of insolence. View quote
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Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions. View quote
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Making money is not without its value, but nothing is baser than to make it by wrong-doing. View quote
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Seek after the good, and with much toil shall ye find it; the evil turns up of itself without your seeking it. View quote
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In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds,-from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art. View quote
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In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the [influences] that reach and impinge upon it. View quote
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It is better to correct your own faults than those of another. View quote
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Now, that we do not really know of what sort each thing is, or is not, has often been shown. (Democritus)
And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is. View quote
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Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right. View quote
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There are two forms of knowledge, one genuine, one obscure. To the obscure belong all of the following: sight, hearing, smell, taste, feeling. The other form is the genuine, and is quite distinct from this. [And then distinguishing the genuine from the obscure, he continues:] Whenever the obscure [way of knowing] has reached the minimum sensibile of hearing, smell, taste, and touch, and when the investigation must be carried farther into that which is still finer, then arises the genuine way of knowing, which has a finer organ of thought. View quote
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Fortune is lavish with her favors, but not to be depended on. Nature on the other hand is self-sufficing, and therefore with her feebler but trustworthy [resources] she wins the greater [meed] of hope. View quote
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