democritus in A Sentence

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    Democritus was the first man who proposed that matter is made up of particles.

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    Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus.

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    Useful known and unknown views of the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates and his teacher Democritus.

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    It was this which gained for him the admiration of Xenophanes and Herodotus and the notice of Heraclitus and Democritus'(D.L. I.23).

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    Somewhere around 500 BCE, Democritus first put forward the idea that everything in the world was made of small indivisible particles called atoms.

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    It was practiced by a few philosophers(Democritus) and statesmen(the orator Demosthenes), but it was particularly Zeno and the Greek and Roman Stoic philosophers who justified the practice.

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    Similar to the atomists of Democritus, the Mo Jing stated that a point is the smallest unit, and cannot be cut in half, since'nothing' cannot be halved.

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    Other influential pre-Socratics or rational philosophers include Protagoras(like Anaxagoras a friend of Pericles), known for his famous dictum"man is the measure of all things" and Democritus, who proposed that matter was composed of atoms.

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