Frasi di Demócrito pagina 3

“Tutto ciò che esiste nell'universo è frutto del caso e della necessità.”

“Molta riflessione e non molta conoscenza, ecco ciò a cui occorre tendere.”

Frammenti

“L'orgoglio della gioventù sta nella forza e nella bellezza, l'orgoglio della tarda età sta nella discrezione.”

“Quanto è più saggio dell'uomo l'animale, che conosce la misura del suo bisogno, mentre l'uomo la ignora.”

“Gli stolti desiderano essere longevi e non godono della longevità.”

libro Frammenti

“Il coito è un lieve attacco di apoplessia.”

libro Frammenti

“Degli sciocchi è maestro non il discorso, ma la sventura.”

“Quando la conoscenza oscura non può piú spingersi ad oggetto piú piccolo né col vedere né coll'udire né coll'odorato né col gusto né con la sensazione del tatto, ma si deve indirizzar la ricerca a ciò che è ancor piú sottile.”

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

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“Se si passa la misura, anche la cosa più gradevole ti diventa sommamente sgradevole.”

frammento 77
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“Repentance for one's evil deeds is the safeguard of life.”

frammento 233
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Demócrito: Frasi in inglese

“In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the [influences] that reach and impinge upon it.”

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

“It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments

“Now, that we do not really know of what sort each thing is, or is not, has often been shown.”

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

“And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments

“Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments

“Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments

“Now his principal doctrines were these. That atoms and the vacuum were the beginning of the universe; and that everything else existed only in opinion. (trans. Yonge 1853)”

Freeman (1948), p. 152 [Democr. "Fragment B 64" http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/philosophes/democrite/diels.htm ("Demokrates 29" in Stobaeus, Anthologium III, 4, 81)] <br class="br">Variante: There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

“There are two forms of knowledge, one genuine, one obscure. To the obscure belong all of the following: sight, hearing, smell, taste, feeling. The other form is the genuine, and is quite distinct from this. [And then distinguishing the genuine from the obscure, he continues:] Whenever the obscure [way of knowing] has reached the minimum sensibile of hearing, smell, taste, and touch, and when the investigation must be carried farther into that which is still finer, then arises the genuine way of knowing, which has a finer organ of thought.”

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. (trans. by Robert Drew Hicks 1925)

“Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.”

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments