True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

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

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 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.

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.