It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.
The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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.