It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.