The physician heals Nature makes well.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.- Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Essays, "De Tranquillitate Animi" On Tranquility of Mind, sct. 17, subsct. 10.)
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
Shame is an ornament to the young a disgrace to the old.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life t...
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under cer...
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life th...
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.