One should practice much sense, not much learning.
DEMOCRITUSEverything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
More Democritus Quotes
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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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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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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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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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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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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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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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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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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