The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

He has the most who is content with the least.

There is only a fingers difference between a wise man and a fool.

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

Near the sun is the center of the universe.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Thought the sun is gone, I have a light.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.