The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

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

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.