Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.