The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
DEMOCRITUSSexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
More Democritus Quotes
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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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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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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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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