The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.
Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.