Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

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

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

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.

Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

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