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

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

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

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

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

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

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.