No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.