Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
DEMOCRITUSThe word is the shadow of the deed.
More Democritus Quotes
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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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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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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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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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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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