Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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More Democritus Quotes
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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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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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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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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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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