The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the m… - Democritus

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

Democritus

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Democritus (c. 460 BC – c. 370 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is popularly known as "the laughing philosopher" for advocating a cheerful outlook, and for his rhetorical use of irony and ridicule. A pupil of Leucippus, he was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher who formulated an atomic theory of the universe. Of his voluminous writings, only a few fragments of his ethical theory remain, with descriptions by other writers of his atomic theory.

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Native Name: Δημόκριτος

Alternative Names: Democritus of Abdera • Laughing Philosopher • Demokritos

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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.

If one choose the goods of the soul, he chooses the diviner [portion]; if the goods of the body, the merely mortal.

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

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