The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through

All things obey fixed laws.

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.

For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be infused at the moment of birth, whether it perishes along with us, when death separates the soul and body, or whether it visits the shades of Pluto and bottomless pits, or enters by divine appointment into other animals.