It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Time takes away the grief of men.

You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.