He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

No one ever dies an atheist.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.