"The only true wisdom is in
knowing you know nothing."
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
"May the outward and inward man be at one."
"Let him who would move the world first move himself."
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent." "By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher."
"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."
"Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. "
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."