These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.
Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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.