Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
Geometry existed before creation.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
You should not honor men more than truth.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.