The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.