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

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

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

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.