Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
It is a great thing to know your vices.
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.
What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself. abide by them as they were laws, and as if you would be guilty of impiety by violating any of them.
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.
