Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.