My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

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

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.