How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

Every light is not the sun.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?