Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
DEMOCRITUSIf thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
More Democritus Quotes
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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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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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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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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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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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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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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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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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