To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good