...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...

...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

Cast your cares

You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.

Ninety percent of living is just showing up.

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.

I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.