What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.
The past is certain, the future obscure.
I did not become a father because I am fond of children.
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air
If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.