Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?