Occupation: Philosopher
Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches..
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing..
Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?.
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth..
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.).
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought..
In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered..
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured an….
Life without learning is death..
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed..
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, deligh….
To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of th….
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged..
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men w….
Let every man practice the art that he knows best..
Anger should never appear in awarding punishment..
History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth..
Calamus fortior gladio..
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful..
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted..
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.].