The unexamined life is not worth living.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.