Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

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

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

By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.