The beginning of wisdom is the definition of the terms.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

An honest man is always a child.

Be as you wish to seem.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.