Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.