Quote

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

Democritus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Democritus
Mathematician
Philosopher
Democritos
Democritus of Abdera
Laughing Philosopher
Fatherland
Wise
Earth
Whole
Good
Men

More quotes by Democritus

Image
The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.
Democritus
Image
Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
Democritus
Image
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
Democritus
Image
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
Democritus
Image
Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
Democritus
Image
Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
Democritus
Image
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
Image
It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
Democritus
Image
Word is a shadow of a deed.
Democritus
Image
Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].
Democritus
Image
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Democritus
Image
Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
Democritus
Image
Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus
Image
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Democritus
Image
Nothing exists but atoms and the void.
Democritus
Image
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
Democritus
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
Democritus
Image
One should practice much sense, not much learning.
Democritus