In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

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

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.