Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
DEMOCRITUSTo speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
More Democritus Quotes
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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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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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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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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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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