The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.