A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.