Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

All that we know is nothing can be known.

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.