Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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.