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

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

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

Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.