“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

To move the world we must move ourselves.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Those who are hardest to love need it the most.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

The noblest mind the best contentment has.

There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.

If i could spin around your axis just one last time, That sunrise and sunset would be enough of a forever to satisfy me.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.