In a shared fish, there are no bones.
DEMOCRITUSRaising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
More Democritus Quotes
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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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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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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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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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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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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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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