The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

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

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?