Frasi di Demócrito
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Democrito è stato un filosofo greco antico.

Allievo di Leucippo, fu cofondatore dell'atomismo. È praticamente impossibile distinguere le idee attribuibili a Democrito da quelle del suo maestro. Democrito fu il più prolifico scrittore tra i presocratici, considerato uno di loro anche se, effettivamente, nacque dopo Socrate, per morire, forse centenario, durante la vita di Platone e Aristotele. Tra gli allievi di Democrito vi fu Nausifane, maestro di Epicuro. Wikipedia  

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Demócrito frasi celebri

“Gli uomini, fuggendo la morte, l'inseguono.”

libro Frammenti

“La parola è l'ombra dell'azione.”

Variante: La parola è un'ombra dell'azione.

Frasi sulla verit di Demócrito

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“In verità nulla sappiamo, ché la verità è nell'abisso.”

Origine: Citato in Diogene Laerzio, Vite dei filosofi, a cura di Marcello Gigante, Mondadori, 2009.

Frasi sull'anima di Demócrito

Demócrito frase: “La felicità non consiste negli armenti e neppure nell'oro; l'anima è la dimora della nostra sorte.”

Demócrito Frasi e Citazioni

“Noi siamo stati discepoli delle bestie nelle arti più importanti: del ragno nel tessere e nel rammendare, della rondine nel costruire le case, degli uccelli canterini, del cigno e dell'usignolo nel canto, con l'imitazione.”

Origine: Citato in Gino Ditadi, Introduzione: L'animale buono da pensare, in I filosofi e gli animali, vol. 1, Isonomia editrice, Este, 1994, p. 90. ISBN 88-85944-12-4

“Fama e ricchezze senza mente non sono beni utili.”

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Demócrito: Frasi in inglese

“Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.”

Fragment quoted in H. Diels and W. Kranz (eds.) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Vol. II (1952), no. 294; reference taken from Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 261

“If one choose the goods of the soul, he chooses the diviner [portion]; if the goods of the body, the merely mortal.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Those who have a well-ordered character lead also a well-ordered life.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.”

Freeman (1948), p. 163
Variante: Moderation increases enjoyment, and makes pleasure even greater.

“A life without a holiday is like a long journey without an inn to rest at.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Men achieve tranquillity through moderation in pleasure and through the symmetry of life. Want and superfluity are apt to upset them and to cause great perturbations in the soul. The souls that are rent by violent conflicts are neither stable nor tranquil. One should therefore set his mind upon the things that are within his power, and be content with his opportunities, nor let his memory dwell very long on the envied and admired of men, nor idly sit and dream of them. Rather, he should contemplate the lives of those who suffer hardship, and vividly bring to mind their sufferings, so that your own present situation may appear to you important and to be envied, and so that it may no longer be your portion to suffer torture in your soul by your longing for more. For he who admires those who have, and whom other men deem blest of fortune, and who spends all his time idly dreaming of them, will be forced to be always contriving some new device because of his [insatiable] desire, until he ends by doing some desperate deed forbidden by the laws. And therefore one ought not to desire other men's blessings, and one ought not to envy those who have more, but rather, comparing his life with that of those who fare worse, and laying to heart their sufferings, deem himself blest of fortune in that he lives and fares so much better than they. Holding fast to this saying you will pass your life in greater tranquillity and will avert not a few of the plagues of life—envy and jealousy and bitterness of mind.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“The hopes of the right-minded may be realized, those of fools are impossible.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.”

Durant (1939), Ch. XVI, §II, p. 354; citing J. Owen, Evenings with the Skeptics, London, 1881, vol. 1, p. 149.

“The pleasures that give most joy are the ones that most rarely come.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Democritus said he would rather discover a single demonstration than win the throne of Persia.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“An evil and foolish and intemperate and irreligious life should not be called a bad life, but rather, dying long drawn out.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, colour by convention; atoms and Void [alone] exist in reality. (trans. Freeman 1948), p. 92.”

By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void. (trans. Durant 1939), Ch. XVI, §II, p. 353; citing C. Bakewell, Sourcebook in Ancient Philosophy, New York, 1909, "Fragment O" (Diels), p. 60

“It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.”

Freeman (1948), p. 165
Variante: It is hard to fight with desire; but to overcome it is the mark of a rational man.

“The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.”

Freeman (1948), p. 162
Variante: The needy animal knows how much it needs, but the needy man does not.

“For a man petticoat government is the limit of insolence.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Making money is not without its value, but nothing is baser than to make it by wrong-doing.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Verily we know nothing. Truth is buried deep.”

Another translation: "Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well." Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers R.D. Hicks, Ed. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0004,001:9:11
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments

“[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”

Freeman (1948), p. 155
Durant (1939),Ch. XVI, §II, p. 352, citinas G.Grote, Plato and the Other Companions of Socrates (London, 1875), vol. 1, p. 68; and citing C. Bakewell, Sourcebook in Ancient Philosophy, New York, 1909, p. 62.
Variante: I would rather discover a single demonstration [in geometry] than become king of the Persians.

“Seek after the good, and with much toil shall ye find it; the evil turns up of itself without your seeking it.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.”

Freeman (1948), p. 166
Durant (1939), Ch. XVI, §II, p. 352 (footnote); citing F. Uberweg, History of Philosophy, New York, 1871, vol. 1, p. 71.
Variante: To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

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