The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.