One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.