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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

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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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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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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine.

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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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I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia.

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Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.

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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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In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.

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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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Democritus

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Born: 460 BC

Died: 370 BC (aged 90)

Bio: 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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man, convention

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