So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

One Man's food is another Man's Poison