Quotes

Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus.

What do I know?

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to one who asks, I do not know.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

The best way to avenge yourself is not to be like the wrongdoer.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Only the educated are free.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.