Quotes from Democritus

Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.

Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

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

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.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

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.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.