The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.