The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
The examined life is the only life worth living.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.