If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. |
If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury |
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. |
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. |
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. |
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures |
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. |
In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men. |
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men |
In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no power of judgment |
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names |
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent |
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good |
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. |
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment |