True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.