Nobody knows, in fact, what death is, nor whether to man it is not perchance the greatest of all blessings; yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worst of evils.

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue — to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

“Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?”

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”

“Better to do a little well than a great deal badly.”

“To move the world, we must first move ourselves.”

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.