There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it’s needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.
The past is certain, the future obscure.
Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.
Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
Take Time by the forelock.
If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.
We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air.
All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.
I did not become a father because I am fond of children.
Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.
Conceal thy domestic ills.
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
Hope is the most universal of human possessions.
If there is a change, there must be some thing that changes, yet does not change.
When he was asked why he did not have children, he replied, “because of my love for children.” And they say that when his mother tried to compel him to marry he would say, “It is not yet the right time,” and then, as she insisted when he was no longer young, “It is no longer the right time.
The way of living virtuously is by never doing ourselves what we blame in others.