The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.