Through your rags I see your vanity.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure