There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.