Soul and intellect are just the same things.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.

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.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.