Democritus

1. De tuenda sanitate praecepta Plutarch 1 authority · 1 endorsed 2 citations

   de tuenda sanitate praecepta 2 passages anchored here

   Democritus is directly cited as the source of this observation about neglected bodily signs.

   It is absurd, as Democritus says, by the croaking of ravens, the crowing of a cock, or the wallowing of a sow in the mire, carefully to observe the signs of windy or rainy weather, and not to prevent and guard ourselves against the motions and fluctuations of our bodies or the indication of a distemper, nor to understand the signs of a storm which is just ready to break forth within ourselves.

2. De liberis educandis Plutarch 1 endorsed 1 citation

   de liberis educandis

   Democritus is explicitly named as the source of the cited maxim, introduced approvingly as justification for the rule against filthy speech.

   Children ought to be made to abstain from speaking filthily, seeing, as Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

3. Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus Plutarch 1 endorsed 1 citation

   ch. 1

   Democritus' saying is directly quoted and endorsed as the summarizing conclusion of the passage's argument about private virtue.

   and that the man (as Democritus said) is accustomed to take satisfaction from himself.

4. Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 endorsed 1 citation

   letter 7

   The passage explicitly names Democritus as author of the quoted saying.

   But that I may not have learned today for myself alone, I will share with you three sayings that have come my way, finely uttered upon about the same theme;

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