Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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.
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
One should practice much sense, not much learning.
To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.