| | All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. |
| | An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all. |
| | An honest man is always a child. |
| | As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. |
| | As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent. |
| | Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. |
| | Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. |
| | Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. |
| | Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. |
| | Beware the barrenness of a busy life. |
| | By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. |
| | Call no man unhappy until he is married. |
| | Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. |
| | Envy is the ulcer of the soul. |
| | Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. |
| | Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit. |
| | I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer he does approach divinity. |
| | I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. |
| | Let him that would move the world first move himself. |
| | Philosophy begins with wonder. |
| | Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. |
| | The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. |
| | The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. |
| | The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. |
| | Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. |
| | Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. |
| | To find yourself, think for yourself. |
| | To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity. |
| | True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. |
| | Virtue does not come from wealth, but health, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue. |
| | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit. |
| | What a lot of things there are a man can do without. |
| | What you cannot enforce, do not command. |
| | Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. |
| | Wisdom begins in wonder. |
| | Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior. |