The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

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