The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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.

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.

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.