I only know that I know nothing
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.