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Beauty is hard work. Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

The Body is the only reality we are capable of knowing. We know nothing accurately in reality, but only as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon the body and impinge upon it.

Chance is wrongheadly held up as an excuse for one's stupidity, but chance, in fact, rarely conflicts with intelligence which sets most things in life in order.

Convention is alone responsible for the seeming existence of a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and only according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.

Cosmopolitanism is the idea that the wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

The Cosmos is a thing formed in the following manner: atoms, moving in space, originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

Desire , when held in check, makes little will seem much... for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Desire is hard to fight but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Difference is wrongly thought to differ in only three ways: shape (contour), arrangement (interaction) , and position (inclination).

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Education is similar to nature in that it transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

The Enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.