The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.