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

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.