The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
DEMOCRITUSSoul and intellect are just the same things.
More Democritus Quotes
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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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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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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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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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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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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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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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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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