1. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
2. In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
3. I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
4. If the whole world depends on today’s youth, I can’t see the world lasting another 100 years.
5. The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
6. He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
7. Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
8. 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.
9. Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
