Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

Honor Wisdom; and deny it not to them that would learn; and shew it unto them that dispraise it! Sow not the sea fields!

Time is the soul of this world.

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity. Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased All that thou thinkest, sayest, or doest bears perpetual record of itself, enduring for Eternity.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth and power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.

Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies. 

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.

Friends share all things.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

Sobriety is the strength of the soul, for it preserves its reason unclouded by passion.

None but God is wise.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Eat not the heart.

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.

Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.

Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

It is requisite to choose the most excellent life; for custom will make it pleasant. Wealth is an infirm anchor, glory is still more infirm; and in a similar manner, the body, dominion, and honour. For all these are imbecile and powerless. What then are powerful anchors. Prudence, magnanimity, fortitude. These no tempest can shake. This is the Law of God, that virtue is the only thing that is strong; and that every thing else is a trifle.

It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.

Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.

None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.

It is not proper either to have a blunt sword or to use freedom of speech ineffectually. Neither is the sun to be taken from the world, nor freedom of speech from erudition.