The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

The word is the shadow of the deed.

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.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.