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.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

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

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.