No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Contentment is natural wealth.
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
Socrates
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth
If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
All thinking begins with wondering
Nobody knows what death is,
nor whether to man
it is perchance the greatest of blessings,
yet people fear it as if they surely knew
it to be the worse of evils.
The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.