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?

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

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.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.