What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

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

At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.