To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

Love: a grave mental disease.