Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.