It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Be as you wish to seem.
He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
...the true disciple of philosophy is likely to be misunderstood by other men; they do not perceive that he is ever pursuing death and dying; and if this is true, why, having had the desire of death all his life long, should he repine at that which he has always been pursuing and desiring?
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
Know thyself.
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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