Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
DEMOCRITUSSexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
More Democritus Quotes
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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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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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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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