Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

How many are the things I can do without!

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.

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

To find yourself, think for yourself.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.