Quotes by : Democritus

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions,....

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space everything else is opinion.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.....