It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.
In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.