Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.Democritus
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
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