Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.