Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
DEMOCRITUSMedicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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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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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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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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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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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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