One should practice much sense, not much learning.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.