Fortune Provides A Man's Table

Reason Is Often A More Powerful Persuader Than Gold.

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.

Good Breeding In Cattle Depends On Physical Health, But In Men On A Well-formed Character.

Some Men Are Masters Of Cities, But Are Enslaved To Women.

By Convention Sweet Is Sweet, By Convention Bitter Is Bitter, By Convention Hot Is Hot, By Convention Cold Is Cold, By Convention Color Is Color. But In Reality There Are Atoms And The Void. That Is, The Objects Of Sense Are Supposed To Be Real And It Is Customary To Regard Them As Such, But In Truth They Are Not. Only The Atoms And The Void Are Real.