I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Injustice never rules forever.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.