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

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

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

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.

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

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.