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

Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

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

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

The word is the shadow of the deed.