Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
DEMOCRITUSThe wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
More Democritus Quotes
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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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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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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