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

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

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

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

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

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

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

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.

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

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

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

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.