It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

How many things I can do without!

Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.