Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

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

Love: a grave mental disease.

True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.