Democritus Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

  Democritus

  Children, Worry, Battle

• People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

  Democritus

  Children, Hypocrisy, People

• Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

  Democritus

  Children, Men, Desire

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 152), 1948.

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