Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

The examined life is the only life worth living.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

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