What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.