The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

...the Gods too love a joke.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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.

There is truth in wine and children