 There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. |
| There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. |
| Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. |
| There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. |
| We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. |
| He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. |
| Democracy passes into despotism. |
| When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. |
| No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. |
| Death is not the worst that can happen to men. |
| There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. |
| For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. |
| Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. |
| When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. |
| I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. |
| And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. |
| Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. |
| Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. |
| He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. |
| The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. |
