Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Retain the wind by compressing the belly.
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.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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.