The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?