The more I learn, the less I realize I know.
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.
Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
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.
The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.