Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

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

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.