The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
DEMOCRITUSNature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
More Democritus Quotes
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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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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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 animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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