Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
DEMOCRITUSGood breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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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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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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