Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

The examined life is the only life worth living.

True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.