The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

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.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.