Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
DEMOCRITUSOur sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
More Democritus Quotes
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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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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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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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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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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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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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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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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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 pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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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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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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