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.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

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

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

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

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.