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Democritus Quote - One should practice much sense, not much learning.

One should practice much sense, not much learning.

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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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Moderation Pain Pleasure Throw Wind
Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Expectation Virtue Wrong
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Extension Knowledge Power Treasure
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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Blame Character Echo Fate Man Mistake Nature Passion Weakness
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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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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Men Prudent Trust Worth
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Intelligence Learning Men
All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Necessity One Liner Science Virtue
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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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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Brave Enemy Man Overcome Pleasure Strong
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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Children Excuse Greedy Human Nature People
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Animal Man Need Philosophy
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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Alone Deed Desire False Man True
In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Bone Fish One Liner Partnership Share Team Work
Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Desire Goodness Intention Wisdom Wrong
To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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She Speak Woman

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