All things in moderation, including moderation.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.