"It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new."
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"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."
― Democritus
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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
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"Many much-learned men have no intelligence."
― Democritus
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"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds."
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"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."
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"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all."
― Democritus
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"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
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"No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge."
― Democritus
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"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich."
― Democritus |
"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."
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"No one regards the things before his feet, But views with care the regions of the sky."
― Democritus
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"To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland."
― Democritus
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"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."
― Democritus
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"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."
― Democritus
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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 his weaknesses."
― Democritus
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