Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
DEMOCRITUSSexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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 better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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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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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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