Life and Existence

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Men create the gods in their own image.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

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

Better not to exist than live basely.