No soul willfully does wrong.

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.