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

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

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.

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.