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.

　　我们现在的青年爱奢侈。他们不礼貌，蔑视权威;他们不尊敬长辈而且爱喋喋不休;当长辈进入房间时他们不再起身;他们顶撞他们的父母，在聚会时喋喋不休;霸占他们的食物并欺压他们的教师。

　　Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

　　有时你建起心墙并非为了远离人群，而是为了看清谁在乎去推倒它。

　　Know thyself.

　　认识你自己。

　　Let him who would move the world first move himself.

　　要想改变世界需先改变他自己。

　　Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

　　死亡可能是人类最伟大的福气。

　　The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

　　幸福的秘诀，不是寻求更多发现，而是在成长中享受到细微的一种能力。

　　Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

　　知足是天然的财富，奢侈是人为的贫困。

　　When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

　　诽谤成为了辩论失败者的工具。

　　Every action has its pleasures and its price.

　　每个行为都有它的乐趣和它的代价。

　　Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

　　不要让别人激怒你，如果别人对你做了什么。

　　I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

　　我不是一位雅典人或希腊人，而是一位世界的公民。