If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?

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.

If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.

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

The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.