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• Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
• Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.
• The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
• The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter…
• By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention…
• The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures
• Envy is the cause of political division.
• The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
• Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
• Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
• Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
• The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

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