When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.