It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

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.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

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

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

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.