If man were to take care of his own health, it would be difficult to find a doctor who knows better than this what is useful for his health.
The bad man does harm to others without any profit to himself.
He who does not learn by talking, he will not learn by beating.
Better to die bravely than live in shame.
Young people should look in the mirror more often: the beautiful to rebuke their beauty, and the shameless to mitigate their shamelessness through education.
Asked who we can consider happy, Socrates replied: "He who thinks honestly and who has a sharp mind."
You cannot heal the body without healing the soul.
Nature has endowed us with two eyes, two ears, but only one tongue to look and listen more than we speak.
How many things one can live without!
The sculptor must express the state of mind in his works.
It is amazing how sculptors of stone statues strive to give the stone a human-like face, but they do not think that they can become like the stone themselves.
A good beginning is not insignificant, although it starts from insignificant things.
The fewer desires I have, the closer I am to the gods.
What a strange thing is delight! How it grows together with its apparent opposite, pain! They do not wish to appear to man together, but as soon as man pursues and obtains one of them, almost without fail the other also makes its appearance; you may think they are two bodies with one head.
Here's the amazing thing: any man can easily tell how many sheep he has, but not everyone can tell how many friends - so little valued are they.
I eat to live, others live to eat.
I know I know nothing.
Life is happy when you live it without dark thoughts.
Time discovers everything that is hidden and hides everything that is visible.
Big things don't happen all at once.
The gifts of the enemy are deadly.
How frightening the mind can be, if it does not serve man.
Whom the god wants to lose, he takes his mind first.
Better to be simple and honest than clever and cunning.
In nature there are many forces worthy of glory, but none is above man.
Talking a lot is not the same as saying a lot.
Wisdom is the mother of happiness.
Do not be too angry with the wrongdoer.
Happiness is of no use to the careless.
To reject a devoted friend is to deprive yourself of what is most precious in life.