Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.