Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.