Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

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

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.