I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.