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| The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible | | Uncategorized | |
| The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. | | Honor | |
| The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact. | | Habit | |
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| The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. | | Reputation | |
| There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance | | Evil; Ignorance | |
| They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. | | Uncategorized | |
| Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. | | Action; Praise; Words | |
| Those who want fewer things are nearest to the gods | | Uncategorized | |
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| To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? | | Uncategorized | |
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| To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity | | Uncategorized | |
| True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. | | Knowledge | |
| True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. | | Uncategorized | |
| Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue. | | Virtue | |
| Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service. | | Uncategorized | |
| We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime. | | Uncategorized | |
