Wise men talk because they have something to say fools, because they have to say something.
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
There is no such thing as a lover's oath.
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death
A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbour.*
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Wealth ... And poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
