Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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.

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Greed has no boundaries

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.