Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they supposed that it is impossible to make any true statemen...
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.
Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The secret to humor is surprise.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.