I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

...the Gods too love a joke.

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.