It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.