It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.

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.

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

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.