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

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

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

By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.