There is nothing more important than victory over yourself.
No good thing in life is enjoyable if you don't share it with friends.
Vice consists precisely in doing something bad as something good.
Let no one rashly assume so important a thing as self-knowledge.
Tell yourself honestly, what man would agree to harness the reins of marriage if, according to the custom of the wise, he had previously weighed the troubles of married life?
Shame is unfit for one in need.
Human nature is made up in such a way that no one is safe from serious vices.
Everything we do wrong in our youth we will pay for in our old age.
Do you want to be praised by being angry? Then be angry with the vice, and not with the person.
The Christian faith, it seems, resembles a kind of foolishness and is incompatible with wisdom. That it is not by chance that fools are pleasing to God.
The church was founded on blood, strengthened by blood, and increased by blood.
Everything is in itself either a cause, directed towards us, or an effect, proceeding from us.
When we talk about love, it must be understood as the desire for beauty, because this is the definition of love for all philosophers.
Beauty is of three kinds: of souls, of bodies, and of voices. The beauty of souls can be understood, with the mind, that of bodies, with sight, that of voices, with hearing.
Love is the desire to delight in beauty. And beauty is a kind of radiance that attracts the human soul.
The thought must be directed to the uncontained.
There is no long friendship, no obedience, no comradeship, where one does not accommodate the other.
You must not disregard the performance of duty merely for fear of making enemies or of displeasing someone.
Fulfilling one's duty brings one a fame from which the gain is greater than the harm from a supposed enemy.
There is nothing more precious than friends; so don't miss the opportunity to make friends whenever you can.
No one should forget that he will die, but live as if he had to live forever.
Nature has given us the opportunity not to think about death, because if we thought about it, the world would be still and stiff.
May the ingratitude of many not turn you away from doing good; For besides the fact that good in itself, without pursuing other ends, is a noble thing, you may meet, in doing good, so much gratitude on one's part, that it will serve as gratitude for the whole ingratitude of others.
Man's greatest test is not to resist failure, but to resist happiness.
Everyone has flaws, some - more, others - less. This is why neither friendship, nor help, nor communication would be possible, if there were no patience.
The man who enjoys a resounding fame will never feel the lack of friends, sympathy and goodwill of people.
God forgives those who hang themselves rather than those who die for vanity.
For everything bad that happened to us, the Germans were to blame!
If you are evil, then why do you know how to do good to your children, and if you consider yourselves good and kind-hearted, then why do you not do good to our children as well as yours?
How can the tree flourish if its roots have dried up? Likewise here: how long will there be no necessary order in the state, whence warlike valor? When a commander does not constantly strengthen his army, he will sooner be defeated than victorious. You, therefore, scorning all this, only praise valor, but on what exactly valor is founded - you do not care.