Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

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.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.