Life unexamined, is not worth living.
DEMOCRITUSTo speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
More Democritus Quotes
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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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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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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