The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

All things are in common among friends.

Nothing can be produced out of nothing.

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

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