We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.

Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.