Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
DEMOCRITUSIt is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
More Democritus Quotes
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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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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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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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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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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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