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.
DEMOCRITUSThe wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
More Democritus Quotes
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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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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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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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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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