“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.

For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

You must accept the reality of other people.