One should practice much sense, not much learning.
DEMOCRITUSThe 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.
More Democritus Quotes
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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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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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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