Democritus

Envy is the cause of political division.

— Democritus

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

— Democritus

“Accept nothing pleasant unless it is beneficial.”

— Democritus

Word is a shadow of a deed.

— Democritus

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

— Democritus

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

— Democritus

The wise man’s home is the universe.

— Democritus

Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.

— Democritus

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

— Democritus

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

— Democritus

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

— Democritus

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

— Democritus

There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

— Democritus

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

— Democritus

It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.

— Democritus

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures

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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and…

— Democritus

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his…

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The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard…

— Democritus

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters…

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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but…

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Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

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Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

— Democritus

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

— Democritus

“One will seem to promote virtue better by using encouragement and persuasion of speech than law and necessity. For it is likely…

— Democritus

By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention…

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Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These,…

— Democritus

Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where…

— Democritus

I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have…

— Democritus

“Men achieve cheerfulness by moderation in pleasure and by proportion in their life excess and deficiency are apt to fluctuate and cause…

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There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in…

— Democritus

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

— Democritus

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

— Democritus

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

— Democritus

In a shared fish, there are no bones.

— Democritus

Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

— Democritus

Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

— Democritus

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

— Democritus

If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.

— Democritus

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

— Democritus