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Democritus Inspirational Quotes (59)

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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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It is hard to fight desire but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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We know nothing in reality for truth lies in an abyss.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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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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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Word is a shadow of a deed.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.
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According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.
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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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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.
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Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.
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It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
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