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Men Quotes by Democritus
- Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
- Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.
- 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.
- The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures
- Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
- Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but…
- Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.
- The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
- To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
- Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
- More men have become great through practice than by nature.
- Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
- It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
- To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
- I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries…
- The wise man’s home is the universe.
- One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.
- Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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