To find yourself, think for yourself.

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.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.