All things happen by virtue of necessity.
DEMOCRITUSHappiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
More Democritus Quotes
-
-
In a shared fish, there are no bones.
DEMOCRITUS -
Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
DEMOCRITUS -
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
DEMOCRITUS -
Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
DEMOCRITUS -
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
DEMOCRITUS -
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
DEMOCRITUS -
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
DEMOCRITUS -
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
DEMOCRITUS -
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
DEMOCRITUS -
Men should strive to think much and know little.
DEMOCRITUS -
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
DEMOCRITUS -
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
DEMOCRITUS -
The word is the shadow of the deed.
DEMOCRITUS -
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
DEMOCRITUS -
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
DEMOCRITUS