Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.