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Quotes from Freeman — Democritus

460 BC–370 BC Greece

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21 quotes

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

Freeman (1948)

Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Freeman (1948)

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

Freeman (1948)

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

Freeman (1948)

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

Freeman (1948)

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

Freeman (1948)

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Freeman (1948)

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Freeman (1948)

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

Freeman (1948)

Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

Freeman (1948)

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Freeman (1948)

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.

Freeman (1948)

Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

Freeman (1948)

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Freeman (1948)

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

Freeman (1948)

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.

Freeman (1948)

Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.

Freeman (1948)

In a shared fish, there are no bones.

Freeman (1948)

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.

Freeman (1948)

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.

Freeman (1948)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Democritus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.