Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

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

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.