The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.