Creation

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

I say his version because there is no such thing as a true account of anything. Each sees the world from his own vantage point. Needless to say, a throne is not the best place from which to view anything except the backs of prostrate men.

Is it not better for a man never to have been born?" "Certaintly not" The response was brisk. "Just to be able to study the sky is reason enough to be alive." "Unfortunately, I can't see the sky." "Then listen to music.

It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.

...,I have never visited any city in the world where I was not told that I just missed the golden age. I seem never to be on time." Cyrus Sitema

Democritus is studying philosophy here at Athens. This means that he delights in quarrels.

All over Greece, strangers of a certain age will greet one another with the question, "And where were you and what did you do when Xerxes came to Marathon?" Then they exchange lies.

I would not be surprised if elephants are more intelligent than human beings. After all, their heads are larger than ours, and the fact that they do not speak might well be an indication of superiority.

I said it. I like to quote myself. I am not modest.