“ Finally, waiting for death with a cheerful mind, as being nothing else than a dissolution of the elements of which every living being is compounded. ”
“ Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what is done for the benefit of the whole; or there are only atoms, and nothing else than mixture and dispersion. ”
“ You ought to realize, you take up very little space in the world as a whole – your body, that is; in reason, however, you yield to no one, not even to the gods, because reason is not measured in size but sense. ”