Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
Let us ask what is best – not what is customary. Let us love temperance – let us be just – let us refrain from bloodshed.
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
The expression of truth is simplicity.
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.
People do not die – they kill themselves.
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
The sun shines even on the wicked.
The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.
A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.