Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

The wise man’s home is the universe.

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.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

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

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