Democritus Quotes
Top 80 wise famous quotes and sayings by Democritus
Democritus Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.
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.
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.
Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.
The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work.
Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist
The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.