We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

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.

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

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

Each man the architect of his own fate.