Life unexamined, is not worth living.
DEMOCRITUSMore men have become great through practice than by nature.
More Democritus Quotes
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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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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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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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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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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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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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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