Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Contentment is natural wealth.
Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.