They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

You should not honor men more than truth.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.