The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
DEMOCRITUSNature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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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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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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