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Word is a shadow of a deed.
The word is the shadow of the deed.
The wise man’s home is the universe.
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Envy creates the beginning of strife.
In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Nothing exists but atoms and the void.
Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].
All things happen by virtue of necessity.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.
Soul and intellect are just the same things.
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
One should practice much sense, not much learning.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.
Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.
My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.