Democritus

"The man who makes few words speaks volumes."

"Choose the best; habit will make them pleasant and easy."

"Small tokens often contain great meanings."

"The desire for understanding is implanted in man by nature."

"Misfortune springs from the same source as happiness."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities."

"I would rather discover one true cause than win the kingdom of Persia."

"The cause of errors is ignorance of better."

"It is shameful to lust after strange women."

"The man who commits injustice is more unhappy than the man who suffers it."

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit."

"The more a man knows, the more he forgives."

"Courage is produced by training."

"The word is a shadow of the deed."

"When a man courageously sticks to his principles, his nature rises to nobility."

"Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, cease to be pleasures."

"The greatest good is the agreement of the state."

"I prefer a single day living like a lion to 100 years living like a sheep."

"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."

"A man's wealth should be measured not by the gold he possesses but by the contentment of his mind."

"The nature of error is to believe that one knows what one does not know."

"Matter is infinite, eternal and immutable."

"Wealth and poverty are not terms of truth but terms of error."

"The man who loves is like a flame burning in the night."

"Love is an art, and like all arts it requires practice."

"It is impossible that a man should be happy in solitude."

"Life is a battle and a journey."

"Dreams are not merely idle phantoms of the mind."

"The beautiful is in nature, and in the nature of things."

"I would rather discover one natural cause than become the King of Persia."