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Democritus Quote - Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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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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Children Excuse Greedy Human Nature People
Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Desire Goodness Intention Wisdom Wrong
The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Home Man One Liner Universe Wise
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Deed Deep Goodness Remember Sin
In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Bone Fish One Liner Partnership Share Team Work
Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Expectation Virtue Wrong
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Children Desire Man Moderation
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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Brave Enemy Man Overcome Pleasure Strong
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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Alone Deed Desire False Man True
Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Moderation Pleasure
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Extension Knowledge Power Treasure
Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Body Disease Home Life
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Greedy Human Nature Listen Talk Want
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Animal Man Need Philosophy
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Console Injustice Suffering Unhappy
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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Battle Children Raise Reach Success Uncertain Worry

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