The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.