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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
— Democritus
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
— Democritus
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
— Democritus
Word is a shadow of a deed.
— Democritus
Soul and intellect are just the same things.
— Democritus
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
— Democritus
Men should strive to think much and know little.
— Democritus
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
— Democritus
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.
— Democritus
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
— Democritus
Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.
— Democritus
Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.
— Leon M. Lederman
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
— Democritus
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
— Democritus
Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist
— Democritus
The wise man's home is the universe.
— Democritus
When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye.
— Jostein Gaarder
Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
— Democritus
In a shared fish, there are no bones.
— Democritus
Democritus is studying philosophy here at Athens. This means that he delights in quarrels.
— Gore Vidal
The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
— Democritus
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.
— Democritus
The word is the shadow of the deed.
— Democritus
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
— Democritus
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
— Democritus
Envy is the cause of political division.
— Democritus
Man is a universe in little [ Microcosm ].
— Democritus
All things happen by virtue of necessity.
— Democritus
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The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.
— Democritus
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
— Democritus
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
— Democritus
One should practice much sense, not much learning.
— Democritus
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Nothing exists but atoms and the void.
— Democritus
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
— Democritus
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
— Democritus
Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
— Democritus
