This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

A work well begun is half-ended.