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

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

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

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.