Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil...

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

There is nothing permanent except change.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.