Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.