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.

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

The gods love those of ordered soul.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.