In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
There is no learning without remembering.
The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.
Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
True wisdom lies in one’s confession about the limits of one’s knowledge.
Do not go through life like a leaf blown from here to there, believing whatever you are told.
All things in moderation, including moderation.
Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?
Through your rags I see your vanity.
I know what I do not know.
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
All thinking begins with wondering.
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, ‘How many things I have no need of!’
Aren’t you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?
Talk in order that I may see you.
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?
Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.
The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.