The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you'll be happy, if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Beware of the barrenness of a busy life.

How many things I can do without.

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world.

Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.