Democritus

Democritus

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
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"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
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"Men should strive to think much and know little."
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"Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."
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"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space everything else is opinion."
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"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."
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"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."
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"If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it"
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"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."
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"[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."
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"Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses."
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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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"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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"By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void."
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"To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland."
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"No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge."
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"Many much-learned men have no intelligence."
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"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."
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