The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.
DemocritusIf your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
DemocritusMoving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.
Democritus