The sun visits cesspools without being defiled.

[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

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

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

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

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.