Envy creates the beginning of strife.

Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.

Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

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.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.