Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

Whichever you do, you will repent it.

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.