It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Go wherever the facts lead.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Be as you wish to seem.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.