Quotes by : Democritus

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

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

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.

By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color;....

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.....

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.