Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
DEMOCRITUSThe word is the shadow of the deed.
More Democritus Quotes
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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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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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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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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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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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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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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