Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
DEMOCRITUSVirtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
More Democritus Quotes
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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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 man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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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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