Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
DEMOCRITUSDisease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
More Democritus Quotes
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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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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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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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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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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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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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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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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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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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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