According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.

Word is a shadow of a deed.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

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.

Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.