All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.