The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.