Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
Envy is the cause of political division.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work.
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.
Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.