To move the world we must move ourselves.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Through your rags I see your vanity.
He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
The end of life is to be like god, and the soul following god will be like him.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for god knows best what is good for us.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
An honest man is always a child.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.