What a lot of things I don’t need.
Laws are not made for the good.
To harm another is to harm oneself.
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
I call that man idle who might be better employed.
I am a fool, but I know I’m a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
All that I know is nothing – I’m not even sure of that.
The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
There’s no good answer to a question you didn’t hear.
Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.
This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.
To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .
Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.
When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.