Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.

- Democritus

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

- Democritus

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

- Democritus

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

- Democritus

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

- Democritus

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

- Democritus

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

- Democritus

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

- Democritus

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

- Democritus