Democritus Quotes
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Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
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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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We know nothing accurately in reality, but only as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon the body and impinge upon it.
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And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.
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False men and shams talk big and do nothing.
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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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Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.