Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

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

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

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

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.