The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.