Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance