Human beings are curious by nature.
We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.
He who is by nature not his own but another’s man is by nature a slave.
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.