Who will guard the guards themselves?(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Only the educated are free.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
When the candles are out all women are fair.
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.