What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.
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.