Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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...
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do...
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a m...
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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.
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.