Love is a serious mental disease.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
It is right to give every man his due.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
I would fain grow old learning many things.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.