It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

Philosophy is the art of living.

Come back with your shield - or on it

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