In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

We are all crazy when we are angry.

A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.