The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.