Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
DEMOCRITUSMy enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
More Democritus Quotes
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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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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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