Quotes
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.