116 Quotes by Democritus

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

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