Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

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

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

The warm love has the coldest end.