Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.