We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Bad men are full of repentance.
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist witho...
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Man is by nature a political animal.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception o...
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
The gods too are fond of a joke.