# Ethics fragments under Democritus' name teach euthymia, cheerfulness as a measure, as later collections report

Date: 420

## The fact

Received ethics fragments teach euthymia rather than a later hospital programme. Democritus’s documented role is: Later fragment books print cheerfulness-and-measure sayings under his name. He did not staff a clinic. Do not treat laughing-sage canvases as this ethics. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Democritus's documented role is: Later fragment books print cheerfulness-and-measure sayings under his name. He did not staff a clinic.

## Context

Abderite teaching as later quoted. Christian and painter cartoons are reception. Named others on the file: Later excerptors; [Epicurus](/people/epicurus) as a reviser not a classmate. The public setting is the file around -0420-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Ethics fragments under Democritus' name teach euthymia, cheerfulness as a measure, as later collections report. The setting of Ethics fragments under Democritus' name teach euthymia, cheerfulness as a measure, as later collections report is the public file around -0420-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

SEP and IEP independently discuss euthymia fragments as later preserved sayings. Official: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus, ethics (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus (https://iep.utm.edu/democrit/; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus, ethics (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus (https://iep.utm.edu/democrit/; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus, ethics (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Civic quiet and measure, which can also be read as quietism on a neighbouring cost row. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A public ethics of measure is a cohesion path of medium confidence on wording. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Fragments, not a surviving ethics monograph. Established: a sourced public record of Ethics fragments under Democritus' name teach euthymia, cheerfulness as a measure, as later collections report under -0420-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Ethics fragments under Democritus' name teach euthymia, cheerfulness as a measure, as later collections report under -0420-01-01.

The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat laughing-sage canvases as this ethics. Mixed effects of Ethics fragments under Democritus' name teach euthymia, cheerfulness as a measure, as later collections report are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Ethics fragments under Democritus' name teach euthymia, cheerfulness as a measure, as later collections report. Naming Democritus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0420-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Democritus: https://factrail.ai/people/democritus

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://iep.utm.edu/democrit/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/dem-euthymia