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Inspirational Quotes by Democritus
- The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work.
- Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.
- One should practice much sense, not much learning.
- No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Life unexamined, is not worth living.
- Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
- Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
- Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
- More men have become great through practice than by nature.
- Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
- Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
- It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
- Soul and intellect are just the same things.
- The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
- Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
- If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.
- All things happen by virtue of necessity.
- There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.
- Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
- It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
- The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
- Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
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