Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Laws are not made for the good.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.