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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus
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Democritus of Abdera
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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We know nothing in reality for truth lies in an abyss.
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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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It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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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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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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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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