Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

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

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

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

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.