To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.