Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.