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Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.

O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!

Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.

I have not yet learned to keep still.

There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as
there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.

It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.

All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.