Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

He says that "Equality is everywhere noble" but he is not encompassing enough to include women or slaves in this sentiment. Goodness he believed came more from practice and discipline than from innate human nature. They were both strict determinists and thorough materialists believing everything to be the result of natural laws.

370 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera Thrace Greece. For the Lunar crater see Democritus (crater). His exact contributions are difficult to disentangle from those of his mentor Leucippus as they are often mentioned together in texts.