If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.