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I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia.
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Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.
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To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
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In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.
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These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.
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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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