Quote

To a wise man, the whole earth is open for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

Democritus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Democritus
Mathematician
Philosopher
Democritos
Democritus of Abdera
Laughing Philosopher
Earth
Soul
Whole
Good
Men
Native
Wise
Land
Open

More quotes by Democritus

Image
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Democritus
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].
Democritus
Image
Happiness does not reside in strength or money it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
Democritus
Image
Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention but in reality atoms and the void alone exist
Democritus
Image
We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.
Democritus
Image
The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.
Democritus
Image
It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
Democritus
Image
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.
Democritus
Image
Nothing exists but atoms and the void.
Democritus
Image
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
Image
We know nothing in reality for truth lies in an abyss.
Democritus
Image
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
Democritus
Image
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
Democritus
Image
Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
Democritus
Image
Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
Democritus
Image
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
Democritus
Image
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus