Wise kings generally have wise counselors, and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The vicious obey their passions as slaves do their masters.

When Aristotle was asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, 'To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws.'

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

Modesty is the color of virtue.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of " dog ." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.