All things happen by virtue of necessity.
DEMOCRITUSAll things happen by virtue of necessity.
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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
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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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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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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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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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