The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
DEMOCRITUSMen will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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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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