People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.