According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menб that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully