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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.
Democritus
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
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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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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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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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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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We know nothing in reality for truth lies in an abyss.
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Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
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The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other for envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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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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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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