"The man who is fortunate in his choice……" — Democritus
"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."
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72 Quotes by Democritus
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Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
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Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold,…
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The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures
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Envy is the cause of political division.
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
— Richard Bach
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What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the…
— Michele Bachmann
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