Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
DEMOCRITUSMen should strive to think much and know little.
More Democritus Quotes
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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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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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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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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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