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.

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

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

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

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

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

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.