If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
DemocritusBeautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
DemocritusTo a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
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