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

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

The word is the shadow of the deed.

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

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.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.