“Soul and intellect are just the same things.”

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.