Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

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

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

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

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

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

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

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

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

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

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

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

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

We think there is color we think there is sweet we think there is bitter but in reality there are atoms and a void.

The offender who repents is not yet lost.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions his mistakes and weaknesses.

The wise man belongs to all countries for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination unless individuals harmed each other for envy creates the beginning of strife.

In a shared fish there are no bones.

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

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.