"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"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."

"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

"If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."