Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

Love comes with hunger.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

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

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.