The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
DEMOCRITUSDo not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
More Democritus Quotes
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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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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