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Democritus Quote - Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

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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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Gold Powerful Reason
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Beginning Creation Envy One Liner
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Creation Education Man Nature Similar Transformation
Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Fortune Luxury Man Meal Virtue
The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Deed One Liner Shadow Words
It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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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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Choice Daughter Fortunate Man Son
All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Body Disease Freedom Healing Medicine Passion Positive Soul Wisdom
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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City Master Men Slave Women
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
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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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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Battle Children Raise Reach Success Uncertain Worry
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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