Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
DEMOCRITUSReason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
More Democritus Quotes
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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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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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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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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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