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.

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

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.