If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

No human thing is of serious importance.