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.
DEMOCRITUSNature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
More Democritus Quotes
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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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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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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