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.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

Contentment is natural wealth.

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

All thinking begins with wondering

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.