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Letter "D" » Democritus Quotes
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«Men should strive to think much and know little.»
Author: Democritus
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Thinking
«By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.»
Author: Democritus
«It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others»
Author: Democritus
«Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity»
«It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new»
Author: Democritus
«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.»
«Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.»
Author: Democritus
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prudence
«Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.»
Author: Democritus
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resides
«I would rather discover a single causal connection than win the throne of Persia.»
Author: Democritus
«Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.»
Author: Democritus
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