“ ...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value. ”
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
~ Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
