The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
DEMOCRITUSTis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
More Democritus Quotes
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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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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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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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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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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