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.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.