Philosophy begins with wonder.

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

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it…

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil…

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.