It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

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

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

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.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.