Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
DEMOCRITUSIn a shared fish, there are no bones.
More Democritus Quotes
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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