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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

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The traitor rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

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Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you.

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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

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I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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Life without the Courage for death is slavery

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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

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Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

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They who love in excess also hate in excess.

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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

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Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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All people are the same; only their habits differ.

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Pray as though everything depended on God.

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death.

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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: ‘We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.’

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The memory of what others have accomplished kindles in the breasts of noble men a flame that is not quenched until their own prowess has won similar glory and renown. In these degenerate days, however, one cannot find a man who does not seek to rival his ancestors in wealth and extravagance, instead of uprightness and industry.

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As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish.

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as
false, and by rulers as useful.

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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

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Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each
day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The
greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and
loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and
abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are
you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

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It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence
upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to
rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so
wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within
our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be,
without wishing for what he has not.

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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

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For manliness gains much strength by being challenged.

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

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I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.

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At feasts, remember that you are entertaining two guests, body and soul. What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever.

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Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

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In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and whatever you shall have given to the body you soon eject: but what you shall have given to the soul, you keep always.

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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.

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Live in obscurity.

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune’s course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

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OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse- whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearth I pray that I myself may feel my curse. On you I lay my charge to fulfill all this for me, for the God, and for this land of ours destroyed and blighted, by the God forsaken.

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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

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You’ll never find a man on Earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.

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Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.