Change in all things is sweet.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbo...
To perceive is to suffer.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.