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.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.