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Democrates
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Democrates

Democrates (/dɪˈmɒkrəˌtiːz/; Greek: Δημοκράτης) was a Pythagorean philosopher about whom little is known. A collection of moral maxims, called the Golden Sentences (Greek: γνῶμαι χρυσαῖ) has come down to us under his name. They are written in the Ionic dialect, from which some writers have inferred, that they were written at a very early period, whereas others think it more probable that they are the production of the age of Julius Caesar. But nothing can be...

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