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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Nothing can come into being from that which is not, or pass away into what is not.
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By convention are sweet and bitter, hot and cold, by convention is color; in truth are atoms and the void.... In reality we apprehend nothing exactly, but only as it changes according to the condition of our body and the things that impinge on or offer resistance to it.
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[Atoms] have all sorts of shapes and appearances and different sizes... Some are rough, some hook-shaped, some concave, some convex and some have other innumerable variations.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine.
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Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.
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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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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 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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I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia.
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By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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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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Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.
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The enmity of one's kindred is far more bitter than the enmity of strangers.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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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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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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Born:
460 BC
Died:
370 BC
(aged 90)
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Democritus was an influential Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe.
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