Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers.
And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their...
You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
The sun shines even on the wicked.
Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong i...
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinqui...
On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.
How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-prese...
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.