It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.
There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.
Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.