In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

To live long, live slowly.

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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