The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.