The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

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.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

To harm another is to harm oneself

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

An honest man is always a child.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.