The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
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.
Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.