Wisdom begins in wonder.

How many things are there which I do not want.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

May the outward and inward man be at one.

An honest man is always a child.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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

He is the richest who is content with the least.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

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

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.