A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.