Through your rags I see your vanity.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.