Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
DEMOCRITUSTo speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
More Democritus Quotes
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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