Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

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

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

In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

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

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

The end of this life is not the end of life.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed.

At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind.

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.