Democritus Quotes

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• The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess. Bitter
• Many much-learned men have no intelligence. Funny
• If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few. Contentment
• These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination. Arrangement
• There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others… Animal
• All things happen by virtue of necessity. All
• You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires. Alone
• My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me. Enemy
• There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom. Funny
• Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Business
• Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. Battle
• Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. All
• It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. All
• Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds. Deed
• Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. Atoms
• Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. Bring
• The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. Inspirational
• By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. Desiring
• Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. Desire
• It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others. Better

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