All things in moderation, including moderation.
It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.
Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.