The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.