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.

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

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

According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

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