Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.