One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.