We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

God is truth and light his shadow.

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.