Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
~ Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Be as you wish to seem.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
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.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
