Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.
Marry or marry not, in any either case you’ll regret it.
Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.
The warm love has the coldest end.
True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels – temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth – she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?
Wisest is he who knows he knows not.
The greatest blessings granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?
You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.
I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.