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Democritus
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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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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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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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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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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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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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 man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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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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Nothing exists but atoms and the void.
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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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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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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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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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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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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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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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