One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.