Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Democritus
Mathematician
Philosopher
Democritos
Democritus of Abdera
Laughing Philosopher
Little
Poverty
Great
Seem
Much
Wealth
Small
Desire
Makes
Equivalent
Seems
Appetite
Littles
Desires
More quotes by Democritus
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Democritus
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
Democritus
In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus
The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.
Democritus
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
Democritus
It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.
Democritus
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
Democritus
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
One should practice much sense, not much learning.
Democritus
I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.
Democritus
The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.
Democritus
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.
Democritus
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
Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.
Democritus
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Democritus
Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
Democritus
According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.
Democritus
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Democritus
To a wise man, the whole earth is open for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
Democritus
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
Democritus
