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

Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

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

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

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