He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.