The best ideas are common property.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.