Tis not the belly’s hunger that costs so much, but its pride.
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
Mercy often inflicts death.
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
Everything may happen.
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
Unjust rule does not last forever.
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.
Life is long if it is full.
The Germans, a race eager for war.
All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.