Author Nationality

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Nationality : Greek

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Nationality : Greek

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Nationality : Greek

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Nationality : Greek

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Nationality : Greek

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Nationality : Greek

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Nationality : Greek

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Nationality : Greek

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Nationality : Greek

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Nationality : Greek