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Democritus
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Freeman (1948), p. 163 | Variant: Moderation increases enjoyment, and makes pleasure even greater.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Freeman (1948), p. 162 | Variant: The needy animal knows how much it needs, but the needy man does not.
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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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Freeman (1948), p. 161 | Variant: The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Freeman (1948), p. 161
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Freeman (1948), p. 157
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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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Freeman (1948), p. 155
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I would rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

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Freeman (1948), p. 155 | Variant: I would rather discover a single demonstration [in geometry] than become king of the Persians. | Durant (1939),Ch. XVI, §II, p. 352, citinas G.Grote, Plato and the Other Companions of Socrates (London, 1875), vol. 1, p. 6
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Freeman (1948), p. 152 | Variant: It is childish, not manly, to have immoderate desires.
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Πολλοὶ πολυμαθέες νοῦν οὐκ ἔχουσιν.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence. | Freeman (1948), p. 152 [Democr. [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/philosophes/democrite/diels.htm "Fragment B 64"] ("Demokrates 29" in Stobaeus, Anthologium III, 4, 81)] | Variant: There are many who know many thi
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Freeman (1948), p. 151 | Variant: Strength of body is nobility only in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in man. | Durant (1939), Ch. XVI, §II, p. 354; citing C. Bakewell, Sourcebook in Ancient Philosophy, New York, 1909, "Fragment 57" |
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