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

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Athletics have become professionalized.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half