Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.