Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.
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Fragment quoted in H. Diels and W. Kranz (eds.) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Vol. II (1952), no. 294; reference taken from Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 261
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
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Freeman (1948), p. 166 | Variant: To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland. | Durant (1939), Ch. XVI, §II, p. 352 (footnote); citing F. Uberweg, History of Philosophy, New York, 1871, vol. 1, p. 71.
The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Freeman (1948), p. 166 | Variant: Envy is the cause of political division.
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Freeman (1948), p. 163 | Variant: The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures. There are some men who are masters of cities but slaves to women.
