A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.