"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."

"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."

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

"We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."

"The mob is the mother of tyrants."

"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance."

"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly."

"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards."

"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."

"Stand a little less between me and the sun."

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

"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."

"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."

"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."

"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

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

"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."

"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

"Blushing is the color of virtue."

"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies."

"He has the most who is most content with the least."

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."

"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."