In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.