By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.