For good is simple, evil manifold.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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