Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.
The word is the shadow of the deed.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.