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

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

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

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.