Life and Existence

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Who seeks shall find.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

No man is happy, he is at best fortunate.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

An honest man is always a child.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

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.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity, nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Prosperity is no just scale, adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.