How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.