Top 90 Democritus Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.”

— Democritus

52. “It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.”

— Democritus

53. “The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.”

— Democritus

54. “Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.”

— Democritus

55. “The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.”

— Democritus

56. “Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.”

— Democritus

57. “Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.”

— Democritus

58. “Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.”

— Democritus

59. “By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.”

— Democritus

60. “Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.”

— Democritus

61. “To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.”

— Democritus

62. “To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.”

— Democritus

63. “One should practice much sense, not much learning.”

— Democritus

64. “Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.”

— Democritus

65. “The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.”

— Democritus

66. “Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.”

— Democritus

67. “There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.”

— Democritus

68. “The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.”

— Democritus

69. “The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.”

— Democritus

70. “Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.”

— Democritus

71. “To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.”

— Democritus

72. “Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.”

— Democritus

73. “Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.”

— Democritus

74. “One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.”

— Democritus

75. “In a shared fish, there are no bones.”

— Democritus

76. “Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.”

— Democritus

77. “Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.”

— Democritus

78. “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.”

— Democritus

79. “Todos los hombres culpan a la naturaleza y al destino, pero su destino es sobre todo el eco de su caracter y de sus pasiones, sus errores y debilidades.”

— Democritus

80. “One man means as much to me as a multitude, and a multitude only as much as one man.”

— Democritus

81. “Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.”

— Democritus

82. “Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.”

— Democritus

83. “The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.”

— Democritus

84. “Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.”

— Democritus

85. “These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.”

— Democritus

86. “Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.”

— Democritus

87. “You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.”

— Democritus

88. “We know nothing truly about anything, but for each of us opining is a rearrangement of soul atoms.”

— Democritus

89. “Men ask for health in their prayers to the gods: they do not realize that the power to achieve it lies in themselves. Lacking self-control, they perform contrary actions and betray health to their desires.”

— Democritus

90. “No one regards the things before his feet, But views with care the regions of the sky.”

— Democritus

91. “If the body were to take the soul to court for the pains and suffering it had endured throughout its life, then if he were to be on the jury for the case he would gladly cast his vote against the soul inasmuch as it had destroyed some parts of the body by negligence or dissipated them by drunkenness, and had ruined and ravaged other parts by its pursuit of pleasures – just as he would blame the careless user if a tool or utensil were in a bad condition.”

— Democritus

92. “Nature and teaching are closely related; for teaching reforms a person, and by reforming remakes his nature.”

— Democritus

93. “Boldness is the beginning of action, but fortune controls how it ends.”

— Democritus