"I only wish that wisdom were such a thing as flowed from the fuller to the emptier man, as water does from a full cup to an empty one when we a thread between them."

"But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death."

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

"Contentment is natural wealth."

"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul follows the body, and ought to be pure."