Men should strive to think much and know little.
Democritus

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Democritus

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

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
Democritus

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

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.
Democritus

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Democritus