Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
DEMOCRITUSTo speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
More Democritus Quotes
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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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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.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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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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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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 an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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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.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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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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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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