Democritus Quotes
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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The friendship of one wise man is better than the friendship of a host of fools.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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.
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The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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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.
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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Now, that we do not really know of what sort each thing is, or is not, has often been shown.
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Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
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False men and shams talk big and do nothing.
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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.
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It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
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A life without a holiday is like a long journey without an inn to rest at.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Man is a universe in little Microcosm.
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Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
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The hopes of the right-minded may be realized, those of fools are impossible.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.