For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.