One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

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

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

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

There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.

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

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.