Democritus Quotes About Excuses

Quotes about: Excuses

• 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

• Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

  Democritus

  Good Luck, Men, Gambling

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

• 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.

  Democritus

  Men, Intelligent, Order

  "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. 155), 1948.

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