Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds..

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss..

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses..

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me..

Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy..

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul..

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest..

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world..

Life unexamined, is not worth living..

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom..

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion..

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make t….

More men have become great through practice than by nature..

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men..

Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women..

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess..

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion..

One should practice much sense, not much learning..

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures..

The wise man’s home is the universe..

Man is a universe in little [Microcosm]..