One should practice much sense, not much learning.
DEMOCRITUSMedicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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