One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.