For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
Every journey has an end.
The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
It’s the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
Revenge is an inhuman word.
We are taught for the schoolroom not for life.
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.