Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.