The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.
All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.