Understanding a question is half an answer.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.
He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all.
The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
Better to do a little well, than a great deal badly.
For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.