It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.
Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
The word is the shadow of the deed.
Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.
According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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.