This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
The only thing I know is that I know nothing
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.