“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.”

“Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“An unconsidered life is not one worth living.”

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”

“I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can... And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same... I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.”

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny”