He has committed the crime who profits by it.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.