Philosopher

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

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

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.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

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

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

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

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

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

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

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

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

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

The mob is the mother of tyrants.