Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

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

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

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