"To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of m…"

"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presum…"

"Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools."

"Hungern är bästa kryddan."

"One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."

"Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mo…"

"I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty."

"ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδὲν ἐπίσταμαι πλέον πλὴν βραχέος, ὅσον λόγον παρ᾽ ἑτέρου σοφοῦ λαβεῖν καὶ ἀποδέξασθαι μετρίως."

"Oh dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessio…"

"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."