The warm love has the coldest end.

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.