Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The unexamined life is not worth living for man.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.