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

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.