Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.
Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
Only religion can lead to such evil.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.