And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.