My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

...the Gods too love a joke.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.