“We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.”

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained,I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.

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

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

We come into the world alone and we die alone.

Behold! I’ve brought you a man.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

I am a citizen of the world.

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, “If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can.”