In a shared fish, there are no bones.
DEMOCRITUSOne should practice much sense, not much learning.
More Democritus Quotes
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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 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 man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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