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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Nothing can come into being from that which is not, or pass away into what is not.
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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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The enmity of one's kindred is far more bitter than the enmity of strangers.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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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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.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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[Atoms] have all sorts of shapes and appearances and different sizes... Some are rough, some hook-shaped, some concave, some convex and some have other innumerable variations.
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By convention are sweet and bitter, hot and cold, by convention is color; in truth are atoms and the void.... In reality we apprehend nothing exactly, but only as it changes according to the condition of our body and the things that impinge on or offer resistance to it.
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By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.
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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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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Born:
460 BC
Died:
370 BC
(aged 90)
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Democritus was an influential Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe.
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