The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.