He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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.
The secret to happiness isn’t gaining more but learning to enjoy less.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Be as you wish to seem.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
