If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.