Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.

Athletics have become professionalized.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.