Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.