To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Word is a shadow of a deed.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

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.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.