Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for..

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By….

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from t….

It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual r….

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration..

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain….

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does..

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches ….

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead..

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt..

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation..

Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles..

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others..

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is.

When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so tr….

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well..

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days..

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstanc….

Character is inured habit..

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit..

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall..