As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.