"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from…"

"To say that 'men cannot live without women' is to confess that men are not self-sufficient, and that their well-being is dependent on something outside themselves."

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."

"Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. There is only one fruit of this terrestrial life: a pious disposition and social acts."