The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
DEMOCRITUSIn a shared fish, there are no bones.
More Democritus Quotes
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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 word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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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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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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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 animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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