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

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Everyone honors the wise.