Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.