The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

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

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.