It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Pure women are only those who have not been asked.
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.
Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.