If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Democritus
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Democritus
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Democritus
No one regards the things before his feet, but views with care the regions of the sky.
Democritus
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Democritus
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
Democritus
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Democritus
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus
Men should strive to think much and know little.
Democritus
Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
Democritus
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
Democritus
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
Democritus
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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