It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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Men should strive to think much and know little.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space. . . . The atoms are unlimited in size and number, and they are borne along in the whole universe in a vortex, and thereby generate all composite things—fire, water, air, earth. For even these are conglomerations of given atoms.