Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

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