Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

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.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.

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