Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

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.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.