Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.