The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Fools can't understand even the gist by reading repeatedly the whole book; wise could comprehend easily its content by seeing merely its cover title and the character of its writer.