She soars on her own wings.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The examined life is the only life worth living.

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.