Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
DEMOCRITUSTis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
More Democritus Quotes
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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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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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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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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