Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

Be true to thine own self.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.