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Democritus of Abdera
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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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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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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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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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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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 hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.
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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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Happiness does not reside in strength or money it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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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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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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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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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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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We know nothing in reality for truth lies in an abyss.
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