How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.