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

Democritus

370 BC

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Man and animals Appetite Excess

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Philosophical literature

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Presocratic fragment Fragment

Time

370 BC Classical antiquity

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Democritus

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Democritus. c. 370 BC, fragment 198.

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

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