Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.