The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
DEMOCRITUSThe wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
DEMOCRITUSThe man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
DEMOCRITUSMen will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
DEMOCRITUSOne should practice much sense, not much learning.
DEMOCRITUSGood breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
DEMOCRITUSFortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
DEMOCRITUSIt is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
DEMOCRITUSEverywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
DEMOCRITUSMany much-learned men have no intelligence.
DEMOCRITUSMore men have become great through practice than by nature.
DEMOCRITUSHappiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
DEMOCRITUSOur sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
DEMOCRITUSNothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
DEMOCRITUSGood means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
DEMOCRITUSIt is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
DEMOCRITUSSoul and intellect are just the same things.
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