The word is the shadow of the deed.
DEMOCRITUSSexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
More Democritus Quotes
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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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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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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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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