More men have become great through practice than by nature.
DEMOCRITUSNothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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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 animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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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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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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