"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."
"The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist."
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Source: Democritus, Vol. IX, 44 by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Robert Drew Hicks, 1925.
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