To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
DEMOCRITUSNature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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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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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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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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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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