Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

The examined life is the only life worth living.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?

Contentment is natural wealth.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly