Democritus

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

— Democritus

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

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Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

— Democritus

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but…

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

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The wise man’s home is the universe.

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“Accept nothing pleasant unless it is beneficial.”

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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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Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

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More men have become great through practice than by nature.

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Happiness resides not in possessions and not in golds; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus

— Democritus

One should practice much sense, not much learning.

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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

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The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

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Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

— Democritus

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. --Democritus

— Democritus

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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“One will seem to promote virtue better by using encouragement and persuasion of speech than law and necessity. For it is likely…

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These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

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The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard…

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