People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

You must base the Wisdom on Love.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp