There were few who preferred honor to money.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.