We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is
For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.