Not I, but the city teaches.

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.