"When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."

"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves."

"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."

"If a man would move the world he must first move himself."

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

"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."

"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government."

"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."

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