Democritus Quotes

In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

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

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

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.

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.

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

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