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

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

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

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.