He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.