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• Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

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  Mildness, Endure, Magnanimity

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• The word is the shadow of the deed.

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  Shadow, Deeds

  Leucippus, Democritus, C. C. W. Taylor (2010). “The Atomists, Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments : a Text and Translation with a Commentary”, p.17, University of Toronto Press

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• Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

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  Lying, Doe

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• Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

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  Science, Fruit, Chance

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• Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

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  Mean, Desire

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

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• Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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  Men

  "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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• The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

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  Animal, Men, Doe

  "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. 162), 1948.

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• Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

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  Moving, Science, Fire

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• The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

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  Space, Firsts, Principles

  "Democritus", Vol. IX, 44 by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Robert Drew Hicks, 1925.

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• The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

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  Inspirational, Men, Unfortunate

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• Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

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  Democracy, Poverty, Slavery

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• Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

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  Men, Cities, Slave

  "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. 163), 1948.

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• Envy creates the beginning of strife.

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  Envy, Political, Division

  "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. 166), 1948.

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• We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

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  Sweet, Reality, Thinking

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• Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

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  Pain, Wind, Moderation

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

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• Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

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  Powerful, Gold, Reason

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

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  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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• Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

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  Hope, Loss, Gains

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• The wise man’s home is the universe.

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  Wise, Home, Men

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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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  Men, Cities, Brave

  "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. 163), 1948.

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• Men should strive to think much and know little.

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  Men, Thinking, Littles

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• The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

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  Laughter, Ideas, Roots

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

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  Children, Worry, Battle

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• Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

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  Men, Littles, Microcosm

  "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. 150), 1948.

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• There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.

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  Distance, Animal, Moon

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