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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Democritus
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Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention but in reality atoms and the void alone exist
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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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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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Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].
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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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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.
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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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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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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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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 and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.
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