Motivational Quotes

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

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.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.