The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.
I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.