When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Love well, be loved and do something of value.

All men desire by nature to know.