"Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions."

"How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow."

"It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked."

"Boys throw stones at frogs in fun, but the frogs do not die in fun, but in earnest."

"Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils."

"Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune…"

"Therefore we should not try to alter circumstances but to adapt ourselves to them as they really are, just as sailors…"

"Old age is the harbor of all ills."

"Wealth is the sinews of success."

"The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut."