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Demócrito
Men should strive to think much and know little.
It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Aristóteles
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Bad men are full of repentance.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Man is by nature a political animal.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
