When I remembered all this, I wondered greatly at the good wise men who once lived throughout England, and how lovingly they had translated learning into their own language.

Therefore it seems better to me, if it seems so to you, that we translate the books most needful for all men to know into the language we can all understand.

I desired to live worthily while I lived, and after my life to leave to those who come after me the memory of good works.

Even among barbarians, pride sometimes yields to wisdom, and Ares stands in awe of the Muses.

-- Posidonius

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few.

-- Pythagoras

I know that I do not know.

-- Plato

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

-- William James

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.

-- Solomon