- Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well. »
- Wisdom begins in wonder. »
- Let him that would move the world, first move himself. »
- Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. »
- Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. »
- I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. »
- Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. »
- The unexamined life is not worth living. »
- Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. »
- Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal. »
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