Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.