It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
DEMOCRITUSPoverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
More Democritus Quotes
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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