The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.