The nearest way to
glory is to
strive to be
what
you wish to be
thought to be
Be slow to fall into
friendship,
but when thou
art in,
continue
firm and constant
Fame is
the perfume of
heroic deeds
once made
equal to man,
woman becomes his
superior
The only good is
knowledge
and
the only evil is
ignorance
The envious person
grows lean
with the fatness
of their
neighbor
Worthless people
love only to eat and drink;
people of
worth eat and drink
only to live
There is only one good
knowledge
and only
one evil
ignorance
Enjoy yourself
it's later
than you think
An education obtained
with money is
worse than
no education at all
The fewer
our wants the more
we resemble the
Gods
Life contains but two tragedies.
One is not to
get
your heart's desire;
the other is to get it
Whenever, therefore,
people are deceived and
form opinions
wide of the truth,
it is clear that
the error has slid into
their
minds through
the medium of
certain resemblances to that truth
Death may be
the greatest of
all human blessings
As for me,
all I know is that
I know nothing
If a man would
move the world,
he must first
move
himself
Children today are
tyrants.
They contradict
their
parents,
gobble their food, and
tyrannize their teachers
I am not
an Athenian or a Greek,
but a citizen of
the world
No man undertakes
a trade he has not learned,
even
the meanest;
yet everyone thinks
himself sufficiently
qualified for
the hardest
of all trades -
that of government
By all means marry;
if you get a good wife,
you'll
be happy.
If you get a bad one,
you'll become a
philosopher..
False words
are not only evil
in themselves,
but
they infect
the soul with evil
Beauty is a
short-lived
tyranny
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the
righteous are
immortal and divine.