Democritus quotes - page 2

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. (Democritus)
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it.
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The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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(Democritus said he would rather discover a single demonstration than win the throne of Persia.) (Democritus)
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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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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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
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Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
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False men and shams talk big and do nothing.
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If one choose the goods of the soul, he chooses the diviner [portion]; if the goods of the body, the merely mortal.
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Those who have a well-ordered character lead also a well-ordered life. (Democritus)
Of all things the worst to teach the young is dalliance, for it is this that is the parent of those pleasures from which wickedness springs.
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The hopes of the right-minded may be realized, those of fools are impossible.
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This argument too shows that in truth we know nothing about anything, but every man shares the generally prevailing opinion.
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Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
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