If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.