One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.