» The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
» Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
» What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
» Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
» The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
» Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
» When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
» You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.
» Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
» Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.