1. “No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.”
2. “Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.”
3. “Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.”
4. “Envy creates the beginning of strife.”
5. “The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.”
6. “Medicines heal diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.”
7. “It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.”
8. “All things happen by virtue of necessity.”
9. “The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.”
10. “Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.”
11. “Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.”
12. “We know nothing in reality; foe truth lies in abyss.”
13. “Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.”
14. “Soul and intellect are just the same things.”
15. “Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deed.”
16. “The wise man’s home is the universe.”
17. “It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.”
18. “Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.”
19. “The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.”
20. “Life unexamined, is not worth living.”
21. “Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.”
22. “The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.”
23. “Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.”
24. “The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.”
25. “Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.”
26. “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”
27. “Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.”
28. “It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.”
29. “In a shared fish, there are no bones.”
30. “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
