If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
DEMOCRITUSTo speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
More Democritus Quotes
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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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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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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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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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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