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“ ”If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
About Democritus
Democritus (c. 460 BC – c. 370 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is popularly known as "the laughing philosopher" for advocating a cheerful outlook, and for his rhetorical use of irony and ridicule. A pupil of Leucippus, he was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher who formulated an atomic theory of the universe. Of his voluminous writings, only a few fragments of his ethical theory remain, with descriptions by other writers of his atomic theory.
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Additional quotes by Democritus
If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.