Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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 word is the shadow of the deed.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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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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