The word is the shadow of the deed.
DEMOCRITUSHappiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
More Democritus Quotes
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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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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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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