I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.