The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.
Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.
I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.