To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.