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

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.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.

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.

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.

We need much less than we think we need.