Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.