Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

But few prize honour more than money.

One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.