If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
DEMOCRITUSTo a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
More Democritus Quotes
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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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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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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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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