Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.