Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
DEMOCRITUSEducation is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
More Democritus Quotes
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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