It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Prevention is better than cure.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

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.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?