My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

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

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.