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Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

Democritus

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Democritus
Mathematician
Philosopher
Democritos
Democritus of Abdera
Laughing Philosopher
Void
Exists
Nothing
Atoms

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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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.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.
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Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].
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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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Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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