There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.