“Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.”

“By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.”

“Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”

“No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.”

“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.”

“To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.”