Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.