Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.